Sponsored by: Cook County Clerk David Orr Authored by: Noah Praetz, Director of Elections The entire national security establishment admonishes that threats to our election infrastructure are real. Foreign governments, foreign non-state actors, and domestic troublemakers have the capacity and desire to corrode the essential public belief that our election outcomes are true and reliable. …

As part of the Election Cybersecurity umbrella, many states are considering mandatory Risk Limiting Audits (RLA) as a means to promote voter confidence in the election process. The purpose of any post election audit is to verify that the automated vote count is accurate, ie. that the voting equipment properly counted the ballots and that …